HISTORY

1. By: Austin Malone HISTORY HISTORY

2. FIRING ON FORT SUMTER • The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 provoked the secession of the Southern States from the Union. South Carolina was the first to leave. By the time of the convening of a constitutional convention to establish the Confederacy in February 1861, six other states had joined her. The majority of the Southern leaders who attended the convention expected a peaceful secession; they did not anticipate that their action would lead to bloody conflict. They were wrong. Fort Sumter, lying in the harbor off the city of Charleston, South Carolina, would prove the point.

3. BATTLE OF ANTEINAM • After the surrender of harpers fairy, Sept. 15, 1862, robert e lee felt himself in a perilous position, for General Franklin had entered Pleasant Valley that very morning and threatened the severance of his army. Lee at once took measures to concentrate his forces. He withdrew his troops from South Mountain and took position in the Antietam valley, near sharpsburg, Md. jackson, by swift marches, had recrossed the Potomac and joined lee on Antietam Creek. When the Confederates left South Mountain, mcellans 's troops followed them. lee’s plans were thwarted, and he found himself compelled to fight.